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  1. Forty people have drowned in heatwave-related deaths in France since last Thursday, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says.
  2. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Iran that no country can charge fees for ships to travel through the strait.
  3. Israel's military says the two men were Hezbollah operatives, but the Iran-backed group accuses it of a ceasefire violation.
  4. Rail company Deutsche Bahn has paused train services across the country due to a nationwide IT disruption.
  5. Traffic in the waterway has risen since the US and Iran signed a deal aimed at ending the war, including 42 ships on Saturday alone.
  6. Israel rejects the new report by the three-member expert panel, calling it a "libellous sham".
  7. Edgar Lungu's family and the Zambian government remained in dispute 12 months after he died.
  8. The e-commerce giant is suing the US defence department after it was added to a blacklist of firms with ties to the Chinese military.
  9. Researchers say their hunting method - which allows them to prey on dangerous ants - is unprecedented.
  10. The former Louisiana inmate argued his Rastafarian faith was violated after prison officials focibly shaved off his hair.
  11. The money will come from the last allocation from the Irish government's Shared Island Fund.
  12. Abelardo de la Espriella, who preliminary results suggest is Colombia's next president, had Trump's endorsement.
  13. It was the first time in 24 years that a Montreal police officer was killed in the line of duty, the city's police chief said.
  14. On Tuesday, Today show presenter Savannah Guthrie begged anyone with information to come forward, saying, "We are in agony."
  15. Iran's foreign ministry says it made "no new commitments" on nuclear inspections after talks in Switzerland.
  16. The ad sparked accusations of sexism in China, after featuring a man looking for a partner who is "not tainted by other men".
  17. Witnesses described people jumping from windows to escape, while rescue teams broke through a wall to save lives.
  18. The new UN report says the 702 civilian deaths over six months last year included 153 children.
  19. If Kostyantynivka falls, Russian forces would be able push towards Ukraine's last remaining strongholds in the east.
  20. A Tesla driver on Friday said he was using ‘self-driving’ technology after his vehicle sped into a Texas home.
  21. The city's main liquified natural gas (LNG) processing site suffered a "technical accident" in the Ras Laffan industrial zone.
  22. Aden Duale defied a High Court order to stop building work on a controversial US-funded facility.
  23. Police seized 2.7 tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated A$816m after searching a property in western Sydney.
  24. The record company executive also worked with Billy Joel, Pink Floyd, Alicia Keys and Aerosmith.
  25. The heatwave conditions are forecast to intensify in the coming days across central and western Europe.
  26. Abelardo de la Espriella appears to have narrowly defeated his rival Iván Cepeda, who says the preliminary count is "not yet official or binding".
  27. The BBC spoke with Stanford University graduates about what they really think about artificial intelligence.
  28. People across the continent are taking measures to cope with the searing temperatures gripping Europe.
  29. With eight teams already having nothing to play for, has the jeopardy in the group stage at the World Cup been diminished? And are concerns over the integrity of competition justified?
  30. For four days, dozens of Romanian hospitals went offline, as cyber-experts sought to defeat the hackers.
  31. The case from Begusarai in Bihar comes close in brutality to that inflicted on a woman during a sexual assault in 2012.
  32. France, Spain and Italy, have been hardest hit by the heatwave so far.
  33. Savannah Guthrie spoke on NBC's Today show about a note sent to the media in February regarding her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, which claimed she had died.
  34. BBC correspondent Jessica Parker explains some key points of the direct talks between the US vice-president and Iran.
  35. France has issued red heatwave alerts for around half the country as temperatures soar to record levels.